Stockholm attack: Uzbek held for ‘terrorist crimes’

A 39-year-old Uzbek national arrested on “suspicion of terrorist crime” was likely to be the driver of a truck that rammed into a crowd of people in central Stockholm a day earlier, killing four, according to Swedish authorities.

Sweden’s police chief said on Saturday authorities were confident they had detained the man who carried out the attack.

“There is nothing that tells us that we have the wrong person,” Dan Eliason said, but added he did not know whether others were involved in the attack. “We cannot exclude this.”

Swedish media reported police had arrested a second man and that he had a connection to the previously arrested person, citing police sources. The police declined to comment on whether it had arrested any additional suspects.

Eliason also said police found something in the truck that “could be a bomb or an incendiary object, we are still investigating it”.

Prosecutor Hans Ihrman said the suspect has not yet spoken to authorities and could not confirm whether he was a legal resident of Sweden.

The incident, which also left 15 people injured, occurred just before 13:00 GMT on Friday at the corner of the Ahlens department store and Drottninggatan, the Swedish capital’s biggest pedestrian street, above-ground from its central metro station.